| Status: | Active, open to new members |
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| Group email: | Archaeology group |
| When: | Archaeoleg |
The Group meets monthly, first Thursday, in the Arts Centre at 2.30pm.
A speaker will introduce a topic and take questions - sessions will usually end before 4pm.
Please contact Fred by clicking Archaeology Group contact for more details, if you'd be interested in joining us.
October 2025, visit to Llangorwen Church, led by Syd Smith
November 2025, Nigel Callaghan, ‘"I am Utterly Ruined" - the economics of metal-mining in Cardiganshire in the late 19th century’
February 2026, John Lathan, “The Legacy of Rodney Bryne — an archaeological landscape, a farm and a vast collection of tractors and machinery”
March 2026, visit to St. Padarn’s Church, led by The Reverend Andrew Loat
May 2026, Fred Long, “Archaeology in the Avebury Area”
June 2026, visit to the Salvation Army Hall, led by Paul Sass and Mark Mainwaring
July 2026, visit to the Ceredigion Archives, led by Helen Palmer
Recent topics
2025
- February: visit to Llandre Church led by Dr. Avril Thomas
- March: Martin Bates, Way Out West: Before the Farmers
- April: Max Dobson, Climate Change and Human Responses Climate change and human responses
- May: field trip to Martin Bates’ excavation at Llanllyr, Talsarn
- June 2025: visit to St. Matthew’s Church, Borth led by Margaret Griffiths
2024
- January: Simon Timberlake, Prehistoric-Medieval Mining and Smelting in Wales; the work of the Early Mines Research Group
- February: Toby Driver, Exploring the Hillforts of Iron Age Wales
- March: Roger Boyle, Kober, Ventris and the Decipherment of Linear B
- April: Denis Bates, Forests, salt marshes and estuarine channels: the Holocene story of Borth-Ynyslas
- May: Simon Rodway, Pre-Roman languages. Download LanguageInPrehistory.pptx
- July: Tour of Felin Ganol, Llanrhystud
- October: Simon Rodway, In Search of the Prehistoric Languages of Britain
- November: Michael Freeman, The Archaeology of Llanon
2022/3
- February (2022): Fran Murphy, Excavation of Pendinas Download Murphy.pptx
- November: Michael Freeman, Archaeological Myths in Ceredigion
- December: Jon Dollery, Digital resources in Wales for archaeology. Download Dollery.pptx
- January (2023): Martin Davies, a new Roman Road in Ceredigion
- February: Prof. Martin Bates, Early Prehistoric Ceredigion Download Bates.ppt
- March: Roger Boyle, How Old Is It? Download 230302.odp
- April: Stephen Briggs, Did he fall or was he pushed? Some unanswered questions on Bog Bodies.
- May: Will Troughton, Standing Stones of Ceredigion Download StandingStones.pptx
- June:Ioan Lord, Worn by Tools and Time
- July: Stephen Briggs - field trip to Nant y Moch
- October: Martin Davies, Cae Gaer to Penllwyn: a hitherto unrecorded proposed Roman route; plus a branch with a lot of surviving road down to Devil's Bridge”
- November: Michael Freeman, A history of the summit of Yr Wyddfa / Snowdon - botanists, antiquarians and tourists
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